Another Godless Goddess: OK Rape Victim Denied Emergency Contraceptives: Doctor Cites Religious Objections

ikenbot:

yes, I accept

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lulubonanza:

MARVEL PRIDE by *Arzeno

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atheistfags:

If ministers insist on preaching politics from the pulpit then it’s time to start taxing churches.

this speaks to my demographic.

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ikenbot:

Science Query for the Presidential Candidates

I wonder when will the public start demanding scientific literacy among their governing officials, including presidential candidates. We were not a country founded on religious beliefs yet it floods our country’s interest for some odd reason. Would it be too much to ask these people have at least a basic, well-rounded sense of the scientific method, much like we require the same level of expertise from our doctors, scientists, teachers, etc.?.

Here’s a nice article via SciAm that reiterates a similar concern:

3 Science Questions to Ask U.S. Presidential Candidates

“As you may already be aware from my previous posts, The Guardian U.S. and NYU’s Studio 20 journalism lab have teamed up to push a project called The Citizens’ Agenda into the media discourse surrounding the U.S. presidential 2012 election. The idea: find out what you–the citizens–want the candidates to be discussing over the next four months – usually meaning questions of substance about policy rather than horserace and gotcha questions so pervasive in mainstream media.”

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tyleroakley:

Grindr: you’re doing it right.

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the-rain-will-come:

This is not true at all. To harness energy from the sun, the pigment chlorophyll is necessary. Animals cannot harness energy from the sun. They do not have chlorophyll or chloroplasts, as anyone who has ever taken a high school biology course will know. Solar panels are an invention, a man made machine. They are not found in living organisms. Cats lie in the sun because they are lazy, sleep a lot, and because the sun is nicer to lie in than shade. 

woah easy there isaac newton

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tpmmedia:

An Obama Spending Spree? Hardly

TPM’s Sahil Kapur looks at the numbers behind a recurrent theme of recent budget debates:

A dominant theme of the national political discourse has been the crushing spending spree the U.S. has ostensibly embarked on during the Obama presidency. That argument, ignited by Republicans and picked up by many elite opinion makers, has infused the national dialogue and shaped the public debate in nearly every major budget battle of the last thee years.

But the numbers tell a different story.

The fact that the national debt has risen from $10.6 trillion to $15.6 trillion under Obama’s watch makes for easy partisan attacks. But the vast bulk of the increase was caused by a combination of revenue losses due to the 2008-09 economic downturn as well as Bush-era tax cuts and automatic increases in safety-net spending that were already written into law.

Obama’s policies, including the much-criticized stimulus package, have caused the slowest increase in federal spending of any president in almost 60 nears, according to data compiled by the financial news service MarketWatch.

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Or as our Michael Tomasky puts it, “The Drunken Sailors Are All Republicans.”

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